Over the past week, MSNBC host Joy Reid has come under fire, first for a number of homophobic blog posts she made over a decade ago, but mostly for her mounting lies to pretend that the posts weren’t actually written by her.
She first claimed that her blog was hacked, and then after Wayback Machine, a non-profit company that provides an archive of the internet, released an analysis showing that Reid’s posts were never altered, she continued to double down.
After initially claiming that it was existing posts that were hacked, Reid replaced that with the impossible claim that her blog was continuously hacked over the years, and she just didn’t happen to ever notice.
Then, according to her theory, those hackers apparently waited over a decade to then “expose” Reid. Bear in mind, Reid was an absolute nobody back in 2007, the time of her blog posts in question. Nobody would ever expect that she’d be rewarded one day with an MSNBC show (and I still can’t believe she has one!)
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It’s obvious to everyone that Reid is lying about being hacked, including The Daily Beast, an employer of hers that’s since suspended her, and published a number of stories debunking her “hacking” defense.
Ironically, had Reid just owned up to the prior posts and simply apologized for views she no longer holds, everyone probably would’ve forgotten about this “controversy” already. Back in December 2017, Reid had apologized for other anti-gay blog posts that were discovered on her blog. And the response? There really wasn’t much of one, because everyone quickly forgot about.
It’s only when Reid recent deleted that old blog entirely that internet sleuths saw red flags, and went through archives of her blog to unearth other posts. It was then that Reid decided to change her tune, and claim her blog was hacked.
And she’s still holding strong to that claim, with Reid’s attorney saying that they’ve gotten the FBI involved. I suppose Reid thinks that FBI involvement will validate the seriousness of her convictions, but when the FBI finds that Reid knowingly had them investigate a false claim, that could prove even more consequential than losing a job over this controversy.
According to Fox News:
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said the MSNBC host “could be in very serious trouble” if she made up the story about hackers planting the anti-gay blog posts. Reid could even be charged with obstruction of justice for “diverting the FBI’s attention from real crimefighting to fighting a phantom crime,” Napolitano said.
Judge Napolitano explained that a key element of the situation – if Reid is proven to have fabricated the hacker story — is “who sent the FBI on a wild goose chase,” as it would take a formal complaint filed by Reid or a lawyer on behalf of the liberal pundit to be held accountable. He said that if Reid’s legal team filed a formal complaint “knowing that the events about which she complained were caused by herself, that’s a felony.”
If charged and convicted, Reid would be facing about five years in jail, according to Napolitano.
Napolitano did caution that this is only if the FBI wanted to charge her, and they simply could decide that it’s not worth the effort.
Do you think that the FBI will charge Reid? Will MSNBC fire her? Let us know in the comments section below!
Joyless, needs to repay every dime of taxpayer money the FBI spent on this. She should also be fired and serve jail time, for filing a false report.
I HAVE NO LOVE FOR THE LEFT(DEMONS)BUT I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE THE fbi THEY ARE EVEN WORST THAN THE LEFT….THERE DOWNFALL WILL COME RAPIDLY…NOW THATS WHAT IAM WAITING FOR…..JUST IN CASE YOU DONT KNOW WHO SENT THIS,,,TYRONE WILLIAMS…..YOU WILL SURELY MEET GOD……,DONT BE CONFUSED…….. IAM WAITING!
these are the same people who looked into hillary clintons national security violations on her email server, my guess is since joyless reid is a rabid liberal progressive terrorist party propaganda mouth piece they will decide that she must be telling the truth because there is a lack of evidence that her account was hacked. i wish i had more faith in the fbi but after the whole corrupt hillary email investigation and the rabid attacks on the president by corrupt FBI agents I have a hard time believing they could find their own ass with the help of a GPS !
Falsely reporting crimes should be prosecuted. But the FBI has proved itself completely worthless over the past two years and deeply flawed over the last two decades. So Nap is probably right: they’ll just shrug their shoulders and move on.
Maybe the pervert Einstein can claim his peter was hacked too, and he had no control over it when he raped all of those women! Oh hell, I’d better not give anyone any ideas, they just might!
WEINSTEIN, I meant, sorry for the typo. :)
Well, sir, It’s only a crime if 1) she actually wasn’t hacked, and 2) she files an official police report about it.
THAT is an actual crime, not sitting around whining that someone “hacked your server”. If Hillary and the DNC don’t get punished for the same exact thing, then neither should Joy Reid.
She won’t serve jail time. She’ll just be a laughing stock.
she needs to step up and claim it. NOBODY hacked her years ago…..